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Weites Feld


Bachelor diploma in Knowledge Visualization, 2025
Germany has more than 32 000 cemeteries. What do we do there? What do we leave behind? They are public spaces, maintained and brought to life and at the same time abandoned and forgotten.

The work “Weites Feld” (Too Far Afield) explores cemeteries through drawings from various municipal and church cemeteries in the DACH countries. It documents the human traces found there, juxtaposing the findings and observations, creating new perspectives and narratives. It takes a careful look at the simultaneity of life and death, beauty and sadness, order and chaos. The project portrays cemeteries as a cultural practice and takes up the complex debate about their relevance, use, and design. It shows the diversity of individual expressions of the human needs for location and creation.

The result is a story about closeness and transience, consisting of 60+ illustrations and a book prototype in hot pink.

The book is currently exhibited at the museum for sepulchral culture in Kassel.

Mentoring and support: Karin Seiler, Simone Stolz, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Friedrich-W. Graf.

Marker/Fineliner/Colored pencil

Project (ZHdK website)


  1. Calla lily in the trash at forest cemetery Lauheide, Münster
  2. Stickers on gravestones at various cemeteries
  3. Watering cans at Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
  4. Book prototype
  5. Flowers at Eichbühl cemetery, Zurich
  6. Finds at Waldfriedhof Lauheide
  7. Finds at Hallesches Tor cemeteries






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Ant
Anatomy


Anatomy of the bullet ant, 2024
Visualizations for a study of the male genitalia of Paraponera clavata by Brendon E. Boudinot at the Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt a. M., section Entomology II.

Visuals based on micro CT-Scans.

Dragonfly/VG Studio/Blender/Adobe Illustrator

Research article (open access)

  1. Volume render of the genital sclerites and musculature
  2. Polygon surface mesh
  3. Volume renders of the volsellar musculature
  4. Volume renders of the male internal genitalia

  6. Sticker for the research group 



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Oh snap!


Anatomy of the pincer wasp, 2024
Visualization of the highly specialized claw mechanism of pincer wasps (Dryinidae). “Science2Science” Module at ZHdK.

Visuals based on micro CT scans, unpublished Data, Boudinot et. al. 

MeVisLab/Blender/Cinema4D/Adobe After Effects

  1. Claws (Gonatopus) opening + closing
  2. Zoom in
  3. Surface polygon meshes from CT-Scans, various species claws
  4. Whole specimen (Gonatopus)
  5. Animation of the claw mechanism (Gonatopus)






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Horse Skeleton


Anatomical Model of the horse, 2023
Revision, correction and improvement of a 3D model of the horse skeleton. The veterinarian-approved result will be used as a 3D printed model for educational purposes.

With Enrico Bachmann for Equifine and the Vetsuisse faculty of the University of Zurich.

Cinema4D/InDesign

  1. Assembled skeleton, Poster
  2. Disassembled skeleton, Poster
  3. Cervical vertebrae, spinal disks and skull
  4. Animation
  5. Sketches, anatomical collection of the Vetsuisse faculty
  6. Sketches of the leg joints, anatomical collection of the Vetsuisse faculty


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Pitcher Plant


3D Model of Nepenthes rafflesiana, 2022
A carnivorous pitcher plant, unfortunately named after a colonialist, modelled and texturised from scratch.

Cinema4D/Adobe Photoshop

  1. 3D Model
  2. Sketches
  3. Animation loop
  4. Figure 1 in use
  5. Prey in the pitcher 🐜

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3D 


Graveyard 2022 –

Cinema4D

  1. Teapot_v01
  2. Photogrammetry of a taxidermied ibis, didn’t capture its feet
  3. Thingy
  4. Watery cube
  5. Sadness
  6. Progress
  7. Anger


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Animated


Animation projects, 2023

After Effects

  1. Looping animation, can be split into separate short loops. Vimeo
  2. Eye loop
  3. Funky depression
  4. Loop of the Nine of Swords, Rider–Waite tarot deck
  5. Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) catching and killing prey

  7. Strawberry
  8. Strawberries
  9. More strawberries




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Oil Painting


2022 –  

Oil on hardboard

  1. Plein air in Tschierv, Grisons CH, 2022
  4. Plein air in Cumpadials, Grisons CH, 2024
  5. Plein air in Cumpadials, Grisons CH, 2023

  7. Greetings from Tschierv, Grisons CH, 2022
  8. Study of artificial light, 2024
  9. Study of artificial light, 2024
  10. Carrera Street, St. Augustine FL, 2024
  11. Cow, 2023
  12. Calf, 2023


About


Katja Knoellinger

(Scientific) Illustration, animation, 3D


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2021 – 2025 Design – Knowledge Visualization (BA) 
    2016 – 2020 Geoecology – Environmental Sciences (BSc)

Nürnberg/Zürich

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